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<\/a>Your cruising along in your speeder on Rigeil 7, radio playing, your favorite green Orion slave girl at your side when you see this in the rear-view mirror!<\/p><\/div>\n
I\u2019ve collected a ton of minis for this force and this pair was the start of the project. I planned to paint them in an slightly updated style of the California Highway Patrol. A style I thought I could have fun with and would be very distinctive on the battlefield.<\/p>\n
<\/a>The decals were printed on a HP Laser printer using decal paper. The design being done with “vector” graphics instead of say a drawing program as bit map allows me to take and scale these up and down for any uniform or vehicle in the future without losing definition or sharpness! I scaled some down to make their uniform badges.<\/p><\/div>\n
The minis were done so long ago that I can\u2019t remember what I used other than I think the speeders were from some GW Eldar, the troopers are Candians out of a different GW flying gunship, and the Gatling cannon I picked up somewhere else. I remember I got to the point of painting them and was stuck on division of color for the vehicle and basic uniform color. I also was stuck on what to call them and how to paint all the insignia. I like to hand paint flags and such but in this scale on a more modern type project I knew that hand painting no matter how well it was done would not cut it! Finally, I bit the bullet and made my own \u201cvector graphics\u201d design and turned them into decals that could scaled to fit in several places.<\/p>\n
All in all, I think it was worth the five years of contemplation!<\/p>\n
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<\/a>I love the colors and the look of the California Highway Patrol now expanded into the future! The helmets came out just great!<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>I built a brass and steel pin system into the jet bikes frame so the under slung Gatling cannons can be swiveled around.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>I’m thinking about ways to create some short clear windshields for them…..<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Like I said in my last post I\u2019ve been hard at work\u2026ok well I\u2019m making a real effort to clean out my shelf of partially done projects and I got to say that things are looking good! I have 3-4 … Continue reading